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Thanks Peter Very best wishes to you and your family.

That's a real gold mine you've found there. The sort of finds I can only dream of. Any of the Airfix 1/600 scale ships which haven't been recently re-released often sell for silly prices... so I won't mention how much I paid for my HMS Fearless

37202 May 1983, with an evening parcels train from Manchester Piccadilly. Up until shortly before the photo was taken this had been a regular Class 40 working.

On November 13th Andy Kirkham mentioned the Adventures In Plastic/Bachmann Thunderbirds kits - Here they are... Fireflash and TB3, both 1/350, as originally produced by Aoshima, and on the "to do" list TB1, 2 and the famous pink Rolls Royce from AIP. TB2 comes with a very small TB4 which is also available as a 1/48 scale model. TB5 is only available as a "diorama" with TB3. Expensive at £75 and listed as "no scale" ! ...and there's The Mole which is 1/72.

A great find and an excellent restoration job. The type of challenge I'd really enjoy. Well done... Alan

88005 out again on a RHTT, Nunthorpe-Carlisle . Passing Hexham with 68017 on Saturday 23/10

3V63 today, Nunthorpe-Carlisle. 68017 and 002 passing Hexham.

Carlisle 16th September.

Still enjoy operating the S&C layout - 10 years old now and due for a refurbishment. The West Yorkshire layout which morphed into Scotland east coast/Fife will probably morph into a skip next year Despite three rebuilds I've never been totally happy with it and have always hesitated when thinking about putting it on rmweb.

Hi Peter Another great set of photos. I always like that you include a storyline to explain the latest comings and goings at Llanbourne. Keep up the good work.. Regards Alan

Ark Royal IV 1/700 From the Atlantic Models/Starling Models kit. Resin kit with photo etched brass detailing. The kit is waterline only so I tried to re-create one of those classic photos of the Ark with her bows digging in to a heavy sea. The base should probably have been bigger but I live in a small house and I'm running out of space to display stuff.. Took about 2 months to complete, working slowly, as I've found it's best to leave working with photo etched brass well alone unless in the right frame of mind to tackle it.

How about a couple of snowploughs? NW would have a different design but here are NE region ones at Thornaby and Gateshead, early/mid 1990s.

Ridding Mill, September 1999. Hartlepool - Sellafield. Not a very clear shot of the wagons. Are these the exPFAs with lower centres which originally held the coal containers?

Hope these might be of interest. Both photos would be Sellafield-Hartlepool-Sellafield. Hexham, September 1999. Sunderland, February 1999.

Cardiff 1997 Newcastle ! 1998 Low Gill 1999

I wasn't sure until I saw the previous photo that this was the wagon you were referring to. Now I know, here's another photo taken at Blyth Depot in 1994. Until now I hadn't realised it was used for weedkilling. I think I also remember seeing it at Sunderland South Dock Shed.

Sunday 22nd November. Keeping up to date with what's happening in the North East - 68003 and 034 on a run from Carlisle to Little Mill Siding (north of Alnmouth) and return.

Yesterday, 9th November, 66148 passing Hexham. Carlisle-Tees Dock train originating at British Gypsum at Kirkby Thore.

Remember the Lima "all locos £19.99" sale many years ago? I fell victim to that and bought almost anything I thought there was a chance I might have a use for in the future. After 2000, I stopped exhibiting, layouts were dismantled and I moved to a smaller house. The vast majority of those locos were sold off without ever coming out of their boxes along with Hornby Pacers, Bachmann 158s and over 200 wagons, coaches and unbuilt kits. Now, no matter how good a new release looks I would only buy a loco if I can convince myself that I'll build a suitable layout for it in the future. Plans for a small NE layout c1965-7 have more recently seen me buy an Ivatt 2-6-0, a Q6 and a Class 24. all of which have been sitting in their boxes for several years. I now model n gauge and have been very tempted by a Metrovik and the new Clayton but the cost of n gauge locos has become a very effective brake on speculative purchases.

3H56 Nunthorpe-Carlisle passing Hexham today. 66421 with 66126

Found during land reclamation work it was later covered with protective sheeting and re-buried as the best way of preserving it, apart from a few pieces taken for analysis and museum display. IIRC it was either 4ft or 4ft 2in gauge. Alan

Wooden wagonway discovered/excavated at the Lambton Cokeworks site near Fencehouses. Photos taken 1996. Wagonway dated c1780.

Remains of Sunderland South Dock coaling stage. Photos taken 1997-9

Sunday morning, 21st June. 70718 passing Hexham working from Chathill to Carlisle.

I'll have to check the routing on Real Time Trains. Maybe the service runs direct from Sellafield avoiding Carlisle, but possibly returns via a reversal Kingmoor Yard?